What is favor in social knowledge?

[repaeR]

I tried to research online and tutorial but I found no description about this. What is a favor? What does it mean when I gain a “favor” from a NPC? There is a knowledge that said that I can have like 10% of chance getting a favor from NPC? What does it mean? Like just +1 relationship? Thanks.

[TaylerBootz]

I would also like to know this.

[Sketch Elder]

Favor = relationship points.

[Dimensional Traveler]

Originally posted by Sketch Elder:

Favor = relationship points.

I don't think that is correct. Favors seem to come into play when you are trying to get recipes from Owen and Mabel.

[Coltrek]

Maybe it might be this...
Desires

Desires are gifts NPC has a chance to ask the player for. The player has to be at least associates with NPC in order for her to be assigned a desire.

[Sketch Elder]

Originally posted by Dimensional Traveler:

Originally posted by Sketch Elder:

Favor = relationship points.

I don't think that is correct. Favors seem to come into play when you are trying to get recipes from Owen and Mabel.

It is correct, whether you think so or not.
There are 8 skills on the Social Knowledge page that mention favor, and I can confirm from personal experience that I gain additional relationship points from those skills.

(Social Knowledge also includes some skills that relate to Wishes, which is the term it uses for Desires.)

[Coltrek]

Originally posted by Sketch Elder:

There are 8 skills on the Social Knowledge page that mention favor, and I can confirm from personal experience that I gain additional relationship points from those skills.

I can also confirm this.

[sanguinae666]

Originally posted by Coltrek:

Originally posted by Sketch Elder:

There are 8 skills on the Social Knowledge page that mention favor, and I can confirm from personal experience that I gain additional relationship points from those skills.

I can also confirm this.

Me too

[repaeR]

So if that is the case, then they should fix the translation, it should simply change the word “favor” to “like”. It would make so much sense. “Favor” just means that someone owes you of “doing something”, or something, like a “gift”. It confuses me because I don’t think that I can have a companion in this game while roaming on daily basis.

[Sketch Elder]

It would make even better sense to replace "favor" with "relationship point."

[AnExiledOne]

"Favor" is technically a correct translation, since favor can be someone's approval of you

The problem is "favor" isn't really used that way often. I think replacing it with something like "relationship point" as Sketch Elder suggested would be the best choice. It sounds gamey, but in the end were trying to represent the complex social structures of a relationship with a point system lol

[repaeR]

Originally posted by AnExiledOne:

"Favor" is technically a correct translation, since favor can be someone's approval of you

The problem is "favor" isn't really used that way often. I think replacing it with something like "relationship point" as Sketch Elder suggested would be the best choice. It sounds gamey, but in the end were trying to represent the complex social structures of a relationship with a point system lol

If you use that word as verb in a sentence, then yea. Like this: "A favors B over C." It works basically like the word "like", but "like" can work as verb or noun in a sentence, it doesn't lose much of the meaning. On the other hand, the word "favor", if you use it as a noun in a sentence, it does create confusion, or at least questions, like I did, for general players also. They would wonder if there is new "feature" that they don't know about, like the interaction between player and NPCs.

Yea, or they can just change it to "relationship point", like other suggested, but I presumed that they wanted to "fancy" the description a little, just so it sounds little more different, or "attractive". It works either way, but bottom line is that they should change the word, because I'm pretty sure that some future players would confuse when they come across it.

[Crazyfaith]

Since we're on the topic of the social tree, what are wishes (in the tree is shown as "every week you can fulfill 1 more wishes") I thought it was gifts but since it say weekly I'm confused

[Sketch Elder]

Wishes are when NPCs ask for specific gifts.

[Crazyfaith]

Originally posted by Sketch Elder:

Wishes are when NPCs ask for specific gifts.

that doesn't answer my dilemma, what does the thing in the social tree does then? the normal limit is one gift per day, what does it do then in the tree?

[sanguinae666]

Originally posted by Crazyfaith:

Originally posted by Sketch Elder:

Wishes are when NPCs ask for specific gifts.

that doesn't answer my dilemma, what does the thing in the social tree does then? the normal limit is one gift per day, what does it do then in the tree?

Is that the way you ask people to help you??
If you had looked it in google, you would have your answer literrally in the first link, it appears in the My Time at Sandrock Wiki as Desires:
"Desires, or wishes, are gifts characters would like and tell the player about wanting. Fulfilling a desire always yields more relationship points than the item would award when gifted normally.

Desires are randomly assigned to one to three characters per week. The character who has a desire is marked with a heart icon on the map. Desires are fulfilled by gifting the requested item to the character."
So if you invest the skill point you get another wish per week.